Bremen Vance

by Bremen Vance (Original)

Teaching writing requires instructors to address a question that does not have a clear answer: what type of writing should students consider good writing? Because the quality of […]

by Maurice Suckling (Original)

In his essay on the board game Twilight Struggle (TS) from Pat Harrigan and Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s 2016 collection Zones of Control: perspectives on wargaming, Jeremy Antley n […]

by Samantha Blackmon ()

The beginning of the twenty-first century has seen race and race relations in the United States of America return to days of Freedom Riders, Jim Crow laws, and (figurative if not […]

by Luke A. Iantoro (Original)
“While you observe from a distance the great drama which is acting in France, I am a spectator of the representation. I am placed near enough the scene to discern every look and e […]

by Ambereen Dadabhoy (Original)

Critical consensus about William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611) locates the play’s anxieties and investments within an imperial and colonial milieu.1 Indeed, Sha […]

by Barbara Vrachnas (Original)

Sir Walter Scott in his 1827 Chronicles of Canongate wrote about the futility of card-playing and gambling and how such activities place the player in a perpetual stasis, […]

by Robert Sirabian (Original)

In London Labour and the London Poor (1851, 1861–2), Victorian social historian Henry Mayhew includes the section “Pickpockets and Shoplifters” in which he describes how pickp […]

by E. Leigh Bonds (Original)

In her 1775 “Letter to a Friend on Leaving Town,”, Mary Robinson decries the origin of the fashionable female gamester:
Each idle coxcomb leaves the wretched fair,Alone to lan […]

Conferences represent a paradox to me. How is it that through all of the work that goes into preparing and attending a conference, I come back more inspired, more motivated, than when I left?

There is all […]